[Bug 19443] New: Wine itself segfaults when running Geneforge

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19443

           Summary: Wine itself segfaults when running Geneforge
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.26
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: wanderer at fastmail.fm


Past versions of Wine (1.0.1 and earlier, and I think some later but I haven't
confirmed that) were able to run the demo of Spiderweb Software's "Geneforge"
with only cosmetic problems. I have now purchased the full version (which
should be binary identical to the demo except for being registered), and
updated Wine to the current latest git version. The install went fine, but now
when I try to run the actual game, Wine itself dies with a segmentation fault
no later (and sometimes earlier) than the moment of loading the actual game
world.

I've been trying to get useful debugging information, but nothing I've done so
far has been at all fruitful. The instructions on using the Wine debugger don't
help in this case, as it doesn't seem to be the Windows program which is
crashing, but rather the wine executable itself; my normal course in this type
of situation is to fall back on gdb, but 'gdb wine Geneforge.exe' produces
esoteric errors and (when those seem to be dealt with) complains that
Geneforge.exe is not an ELF binary, which naturally it isn't.

What can I do to get useful debugging information to figure out why Wine is
crashing?

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